The R Manuals

edited by the R Development Core Team.

The following manuals for R were created on Debian Linux and may
differ from the manuals for Mac or Windows on platform-specific pages,
but most parts will be identical for all platforms. The correct
version of the manuals for each platform are part of the respective R
installations. The manuals change with R, hence we provide versions for
the most recent released R version (R-release), a very current version
for the patched release version (R-patched) and finally a version for
the forthcoming R version that is still in development (R-devel).

Here they can be downloaded as PDF files, EPUB files, or directly
browsed as HTML:

Manual

R-release

R-patched

R-devel

An Introduction to R
is based on the former
"Notes on R",
gives an introduction to the language and how to
use R for doing statistical analysis and graphics.

A draft of
The R language definition
documents the
language per se. That is, the objects that it
works on, and the details of the expression evaluation
process, which are useful to know when programming R functions.

Translations of manuals into other languages than English are
available from the contributed
documentation section (only a few translations are available).

The LaTeX or Texinfo sources of the latest version of these documents
are contained in every R source distribution (in the subdirectory
doc/manual of the extracted archive). Older versions of the
manual can be found in the respective archives of
the R sources. The HTML versions of the manuals are also part of most R
installations (accessible using function help.start()).

Please check the manuals for R-devel before reporting any issues with
the released versions.